… I [Luisa] said to Him: “My most sweet love, I offer You these movements of my body that You Yourself made me do, as well as all the others which I myself can do, for the sole purpose of pleasing You and glorifying You. Ah, yes! I wish that the movements of my eyelids, of my eyes, of my lips and of all of myself, were also made for the sole purpose of pleasing You alone. Let it be, O good Jesus, that all my bones and my nerves may resound among themselves, and with clear voices, may prove my love to You.”
And He said to me: “Everything that is done for the sole purpose of pleasing Me shines before Me in such a way as to draw My divine gazes, and I like it so much, that to those actions, be they even a batting of eyelashes, I give the value as if they were done by Me. On the other hand, those other actions, good in themselves and even great, but which are not done for Me alone, are like gold that is muddy and full of rust, which does not shine, and I do not so much as look at them.”
And I: “Ah, Lord, how easy it is for our actions to be dirtied with dust!”
And He: “One should not care about dust, because it can be shaken off, but what one must care about is the intention.”